Monthly Archives: August 2014

dotenv is an environment variable loader for ruby. It’s a simple library, but there’re some edge cases around parsing and loading setting from the .env file, and resulted in a good session about some good ruby techniques.

I was trying to playing around Google’s BigQuery, but couldn’t make it work around OAuth 2.0 authentication with Elixir.
It provides limited functionalities yet, but the above oauth2ex provides some authentication features with some OAuth 2.0 providers like Google, GitHub and Dropbox.

Heroku recently announced “Deploy to Heroku” button. I just tried it out with spawn_viewer, which is a simple application built with elixir + phoenix. If you’ve already set-up heroku account, the following button would work.

Nice presentation about AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which I didn’t know much about it. As also indicated in the official site, it’s intended to easily deploy applications on AWS, and built on top of various AWS services like EC2, S3, ELB, etc. Then it now supports docker containers as application packages.

After the docker gained popularity, many of the cloud services are supporting features to deploy docker-container packages. Then the orchestration services like Elastic Beankstalk on AWS or Kubernetes on Google Cloud Services are gaining attention.

Also the new tool like Terraform is trying to provide a standard method of orchestrating cloud infrastructure, which can span across different service providers. Even though the Vagrant was providing common functionality to spin-up VMs on various cloud services through plugins, it was mostly about just setting up single VM. Terraform is more on defining the entire infrastructure.

Though AWS had been leading the cloud service solutions, the may be some interesting competitions in the coming years.